Transpeople: Repudiation, Trauma, Healing
Transgendered people face an array of interpersonal repudiations in their everyday lives, emanating from the political right through to the left, from social conservatives, various leading psychiatrists, radical feminists, as well as many lesbians and gays. In Transpeople, Christopher Shelley examines why so many transpeople are treated with such prejudice from a broad range of the socio-political spectrum, and how society can - and must - improve its understanding of transpeople and...
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Shelley studies both the inadvertent challenges that transpeople make to traditional sex and gender definitions, and the reactions of resistance, defensiveness, and phobias of non-trans people when sex and gender norms are challenged.
PrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviations1 Introduction: Transpeople and the Problem of Re/Action 3Subjugation and 'Cure': Transpeople as 'Phobogenic Objects' 3The Importance of Ethical Agency 8Researching Trans Repudiation: Narrative 'Method' and Study Participants 9The Research Project 12Issues in the Field of Trans(gender/sexual) Studies 16Queer Theory 17Two-Spirit People 22Interiority and Exteriority 25Trans-scribing: Theory and Interviews 282 Repudiation and Transphobia: Concepts, Theory, and Experience 31The Limits of Trans/phobia 31Trans Repudiation 37Psychoanalysis, Repudiation, and Alterity 41Narratives of Trans Repudiation and Transphobia: The Conundrum of Passing 47Trans Repudiation and Intersectionality 57The Problem of Trauma 593 Social Repudiation 621 Health Care 642 Lavatories and Change Rooms 713 Family and Personal Relations 784 Employment 825 Education 876 Threat / Violence 91Physical Assault 957 Problems with Law Enforcement 978 Relations with (Other) Lesbians and Gays 989 Reactions from Radical Cultural Feminists 1034 The Political Repudiations of Trans Subjectivity 107The Conservative Repudiation 107The Politics of Liberalism 112Radical Feminism and Liberalism 115The Radical Cultural Feminist Repudiation of Trans and Queer 119Re-asserting the Power of the Binary 1235 Talking Back: Historicizing the Repudiation of Transsexualism 132The Politics of Representation 132Film, Television, and the Internet: The Contradictory Influences of Media 134Talking Back to Radical Cultural Feminism 141Case Vignette: Kimberly Nixon andVancouver Rape Relief 145The Double-Edged Scalpel: Psychiatric and Psychoanalytic Repudiations 151Diagnostic Repudiations in DSM-IV-TR 153Conservative Psychoanalysis 158Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis 164Appropriating the Master's Tools 1656 Adlerian Theory 168Adler's Break with Psychoanalysis 170The Guiding Fiction: The Un/Conscious as a Mise-en-abime 174The Contested Realm of the Ego 178Masculine Protest 180Community Feeling: The Problem of Be/longing 185A Repudiating Gaze: Homosexuality and Gender Identity Disorders 186Adler and Psotstructuralism: Disputations of the Self and the Ego 1897 Conclusion: The Gendered and Trans/gendered Self 194Trans Integrity / Trans Selfhood 194The Holistic Self: Problems in Holism 199Self-Oppression: Internalizing the Gaze of Repudiation 205Conclusion: The Enigma of Self-Estrangement 211Notes 215References 223Name Index 239Subject Index 245
